ALTON ORGAN SOCIETY (Founded 1967) ♬♪𝄞 Updated Thursday 12 June 2025

Alton Organ Society's 2025/2026 Season of Organ Concerts
Organ Recitals Nationwide

Alton Organ Society now takes a break until the start of the new 2025/2026 Season of Organ which begins on Tuesday 7 October 2025. Full details of the wonderful line up of guest organists can be seen here. Keep in touch and visit this website and see details of individual organists as their respective programmes and biographies are added. Admission to each concert is £12. However, you can take out Season Membership for £72 which is equivalent to £9 for each of the 8 organ concerts between October 25 and May 26. Click here to download a copy of the Season Membership application form.

In the meantime, St Lawrence Church will be repeating the ever popular series of Lunchtime Organ Concerts. The first concert will be given by Will Nisbet (St Lawrence Church organist) on Thursday 26 June 2025 at 1.10 pm. His programme can be viewed and downloaded here. Doors open and refreshments will be available from 1230 pm). For more details click here. This concert is in association with Jane Austen/Regency event held in Alton from 20-29 June 2025.

David Hill MBE organist and International Choral Director, Patron of the Alton Organ Society and currently President of the Royal College of Organists very kindly recorded a CD on the St Lawrence Church, Alton, organ to celebrate 55 years of the Organ Society and to raise funds for the restoration of the Speechly organ. The music was recorded by Herald AV Publications, a specialist recording company, in October 2022. The CD was launched at St Lawrence Church, Alton on Tuesday 4 October 2022. The CD costs £15 of which £3.00 of the purchase price will go towards the organ restoration fund. David's CD was reviewed by Choir & Organ Magazine and copies of that review and Graeme Kay's article on the Society can be seen here. The CD can be purchased from members of the Society Committee, from Resurrection Furniture in Alton and at the Society's Organ Concerts. For further details and purchase of a CD do use the contact page here.

There is an excellent website that lists national organ concerts (including those held in Alton) and can be viewed here. Please list altonorgansociety.co.uk & Organ Recitals Nationwide among your favourites.